Category: I See I Write

At times, if I am the first one at the traffic light of the first junction out of my condo, there is a slight chance that I can beat the second traffic light with my ultrasonic lightning acceleration. Last Friday, I was not the first and the visual was not clear at the second traffic light (cars do attempt to turn right in the opposite direction), so I stopped at the middle lane. Shortly after, a green Beetle stopped at the fast lane.

Usually at the traffic junction, I would take my time to check out the babes in around me. At the corner of my eyes, I caught this old man inside his green Beetle motioned fervidly to me. I thought he must be needing some direction desperately so I winded down my window, took down my shades, and gave him a friendly inquiry look. The first thing he told me was that his car is thirteen years old. Very well maintained I commented and he prided himself that his car is his second wife. Lost of words I looked at Cynthia for some inspiration for my next comment. Before I found my word, he asked if I have a second wife. I have not found one yet I replied and I saw a light bulb on his head telling me that I will need the time and most importantly money. I smiled shyly wondering what he would ask next. True enough he asked me to guess his age. The thing is I hate guessing people’s age. If I tell them that they are older than they really are, people get offended. If I guess right, there is no surprise. If I guess too young, I sound like a dumb. Anyway, I usually am nice so I told him 60. Cynthia guessed 65. He laughed and roared 78! I gasped. Truly did not expect that because he has that sort of energy and health that looked beyond 78 of age.

The light turned green, we bid each other farewell, and we drove off.

We all know how frustrated we are with the Singapore Idols judges (at least I am). Their comments are like: you are holding back, this is not you, you look great tonight … etc. I personally find that the radio DJs at 98.7FM have a better sensing on the contestants’ performance.

After seeing Cynthia cringing and crumpled her face with such an unspoken pain, I offered her an therapetic advice: write down how you feel about each contestant and be the judge yourself! And she did.

On Gayle:

C: Star quality, but not hitting certain keys.
W: Fallen in love with her at first sight … erm … I mean show. Made my heart skips. Who care how she sings?!

On Rahimah:

C: The key is too low for her, but on the same time, she doesn’t hit high keys.
W: Never liked her look, never liked her voice. Sure, the vibrato was pretty good. Just not my cup of tea.

On Mathilda:

C: Powerful voice, but seems out of breath at times.
W: She is frightening. The song itself is aweful with no melody really. Please don’t kill me.

On Hady:

C: Confident singer, need to take songs out of his comfort zone, and improvise!
W: He is the dude. Love the lively performance. Made me wanna dance!

On Jay:

C: He gives contours to his songs, giving different depths to different parts. However, the music does not do him justice. I say, so far he is the best singer of the lot.
W: Dude, how did you to that?! That was fantastic! Show me the riff again please?!

On Emilee:

C: Need to learn a lot about techniques, seems to sing in a totally different key from the music.
W: I could easy cast a vote based on those boobs. Man … but I really don’t quite like her singing. Sigh.

On Joakim:

C: Weak singing, limited vocal range. If I were a judge, he won’t make it to even the top dunno what (unless other candidates are much worse?).
W: Who? Again? (Momentarily put down my magazine) He’s done?

On Nurul:

C: What an awful song to sing!
W: Oh God, my ears …

On Norman:

C: Not enough practice, problem with high keys.
W: (Put down my magazine) … Who’s next?

On Jonathan:

C: Good vocal material, commanding presence on stage, but weak in techniques.
W: I felt bad after his performance. Jon was supposed to be the “hope” of Singapore Idol. And he just not as God-like as I thought.

On Jasmine:

C: Good karaoke singer, but no star quality. Really forgettable performance.
W: Loved her since day one. A lively performance as always.

On Paul:

C: Hitting keys, but need to work on falsetto.
W: The first sentence came out perfect and wowed me. But it all went wrong from there.

VERDICT:

C: Candidates for elimination = Emilee, Joakim, Nurul or Jasmine.
W: Don’t care who get eliminated. Just don’t let it be Gayle, Jay, or Jasmine.

The contestants are now able to blog in the Singapore Idol official site. It is sort of interesting to read each of their blogs and sort of learn their real life styles. Some are pretty childish (in a positive cute way), some are pretty angst filled and choatic, and some are very properly written. If I am to simply judge on the amount of support these contestants have based on the amount of comments posted, Mathilda will be the next one out.

Jon, Paul, and Rahimah seems to have a strong fan support. I won’t be surprised if they can go far. Now, the next coming few episodes will justify the theory of how many of those voters actually vote purely based on performance or more.

There are many reasons to watch Ghost Whisperer that is currently airing in our National TV. It is a story based on a young girl who is able to see and talk to dead people. I watched the show with open mind as I did not know what to expect (what I did know was the young girl is played by Jennifer Love Lewitt). It turned out that based on just the premier episode, I would give my five stars on filming, scripting, and acting in each separate category. In the realm of TV series – movies aside – Ghost Whisperer has an element of horror (it does make my heart skipped from time to time) and has an element of strong emotion. Cynthia cried five times during the premier episode and I felt the same way too.

Now of course, I have to shamelessly say that I have been a big fan of Jennifer Love Lewitt (who has a body to die for and a face to fall in love with … duh!). Catch the series and you got to see her in all the fashionable clothes as well as all sort of pajamas.

Latest Update: This time round, the judge would pick 2 contestants for the next round while people’s votes would save 2 more contestants. Turned out that the judges picked Gayle (wasted all my votes!) and the people picked Jay. There are two more but not worth mentioning at the moment.

Last night, I landed 3 votes to Gayles and 2 votes to Jay. This morning, I pumped another 2 votes to Gayles just in case. As of today, 15 votes have been submited (S$9 damage so far).

On my way back home, the radio was playing Lindsay Lohan’s “Confession Of A Broken Heart”. Avoid at all cost. The lyrics and the terrible melody of “Daughter to Father … I Love You” still rang inside my head right now. Very agonising.

Now, back to the Singapore Idol, happy that the judges picked Gayle and Jay into the Wildcard episode of 7 resurrected contestants. I knew Jay has potential and he did shine. I sense that Gayle may have had a flu and did not perform well. Gayle sort of reminded me of Katherine Mcphee, one of the American Idol contestants. Gayle tends to crack under pressure I guess but she has the X-factor.

Well, time to send tons of SMS’s to save someone’s music career.

Well, all girls part 2 is a disappointment. There are no eye candies and definitely no hotties. In the land of the blind, one eye is queen. Meryl chose to sing Christina Aguilera’s I Turn To You. Honestly speaking, I found her off key a bit annoying. But seems that all 4 judges love her and she is definitely the queen in the land of the blind. So, 2 votes she will get from me.

In my opinion, Mathilda has the greatest voice – very much soulful. However, her look doesn’t really cut it. 1 vote it is.

Charmaine is interesting. She took on Stacy Orrico’s Stuck and I thought her stage present was there. Her singing could be a bit blend but hey, she has my 1 vote too.

So, here we are … 1 Chinese, 1 Indian, and 1 Malay. Fair play.

Latest Update: Mathilda voted into the competition and 3 of other contestants who I have voted but did not qualitied got picked into the Wildcard Round of 12 (Meryl and Gayle).

Rejoice! Our electronic signboard with real-time display of estimated time of reaching the destinations is once again in operation (3 years?). If I remember correctly, it was too expensive to operate then. I wonder what changes today. I personally miss those signboards a lot. How accurate is that today? Well, I did several observations and they were accurate up to 1 minute with my madman driving skill – I still miss the target by a minute though. Sigh.

I do not play football, cannot tell who has fouled in the game, and neither do I gamble on results. Many friends of mine told me that they have not watched many matches. I replied to them that I have not missed many matches. In fact, I glue to the TV from 9pm to 5am each and every day. And thanks to Maxim, the magazine, I have this big piece of poster that I can stick onto the wall and update the results as World Cup progresses.

6777 3777 is a number that I shall remember from now on besides 43657 (IDOLS, duh! For SMS voting …). I am sick of ordering pizzas every time. It is expensive and I can never finish them in one go. McDonald’s delivery service is awesome and it is my brand new discovery. 6777 3777 that is. As for 43657, well, after another week of boring all-guys performance at the Singapore Idol (seriously, do guy viewers find all-guys performance even interesting to watch?), this coming episode will be all-girls performance (yay!). Except that I don’t really see any eye candies at all from the commercials. Pretty, cute, and young Singaporean gals, where are you all?!

It is because of The Omen that I have missed first half of Argentina’s match on Friday. So I have missed the first 3 goals. But I got to see the next 3 goals on the second half. How cool is that?! USA versus Italy was all blood and gory. I am sure the American viewers would love it. If you visit USA and watch their local news for just one day, you will know what I mean.

Back to The Omen – the supposed horror film that to me, it is more of a thriller – I sort of thought that the storyline is familiar. Turned out that The Omen is a remake of the 1976 classic and it has four parts to it. I wonder if they will continue remaking all.

Some of you have already known my “passion” towards ants. If you wish to buy some ant baits, don’t get Baygon. I made that mistake couple of years ago and I have just made it again. First, the baits draw the entire population of ants out of their nets and kill them all on the spot there and then. I took some pictures but they are just too gory to be displayed on my site. Second, the baits don’t work on all type of ants – specifically the fast moving ones. Buy the other brand instead (off hand, I forgot). The proper way to kill them is to let them take the baits into their nest so that I don’t need to clear all the “corpses”.

The American Idol Taylor Hicks’s single is out with his first song Do I Make You Proud. No dude, you make me sad, you make me angry, you make me want to burn all the shops that carry your single. Katherine should have been the Idol, Elliot should have been the Idol, even Chris should have been the Idol.

Oh well, time for the first match … and don’t forget, 6777 3777.

After watching the painful All Boys (Part 1) last week – too many whom cannot sing AND don’t look good – the girls I thought are better both in looks department as well as … perhaps, in singing department.

For those overseas readers, the Singapore Idols website is … not surprisingly http://www.SingaporeIdol.com.

Last week’s result was no brainer. This week I have finally got to place my very first Idols vote through SMS (60 cents per SMS mind you). Jasmine sang the best and also looks decent, so she has my first vote. Between Gayle and Milly, one is better in the singing department (I do like Gayle’s voice) and the other can easily look the best in the competition so far (her eyes were so watery!). Undecided. I have casted 1 vote each. Then I thought, what the hack, I cast 1 extra vote to Jasmine just so show my support.

Now, that is S$2.40 for round 1.

Latest Update: Alright. The result is in. The girl whom I have invested 2 votes has made it (Jasmine that is). Sort of very disappointed that Gayle doesn’t make it. Instead, Rahimah – the one who has no look and can’t sing (can’t reach the high notes) – made it. Being the only Malay contestant in that round, I have predicted that she would make it. Still, I don’t like the result. At least not all of it.

After watching the painful All Boys (Part 1) last week – too many whom cannot sing AND don’t look good – the girls I thought are better both in looks department as well as … perhaps, in singing department.

Lately, I have been shopping for the solar panel for my car. I texted my car agent and he put me through this company that installs the brand of a solar panel that I have not heard of. So this salegirl called me up and explained to me what products they offer. After the call, she texted me her contact number and a website that contains her blog on not only her personal life, but also photos of all the cool cars that she has come across.

I must say that it is a very cool strategy. Her assets – pleasant looking with a decent personality – that are not able to put through the voice call are now shining through her own blog site. Next time if I have a company, the recruitment criteria would be:

1. Is she hot?
2. Is she hot?
3. Is she hot?
4. Does she blog and willing to share her blog with her potential clients and clients?